Oversight of materials as they move from the different groups.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
Smoke Signals
Smoke Signals Essay
Jake Weese
Smoke Signals showed Indian Culture in both a positive and negative way through the way the characters dealt with native history and stereotypes as well.. Our Main characters are Thomas and Victor, 2 Native American's who live on a reservation in Idaho. When Victor's dad is found dead in Phoenix, the two embark on a journey to originally just go claim the body and the stuff but it ends up being more than that in the end.
Our Characters have to deal with a lot of stereotypes and struggles with Native History. Victor even tells Thomas that he doesn't act like a true native and asks him how many times he'd seen "Dances With Wolves". Even Victor himself ends up acting like a stereotype later on When he explains to Thomas what it's like to truly be a native "Don't Smile, you need to look tough, be stoic Thomas, act like you've just killed a buffalo." This line is shown later to be false when Thomas tells Victor that their tribe weren't buffalo hunters but fishermen. This last example also helps to show that even the boys don't know they're own tribal/native history as well as being a stereotype since the boys assume every tribe killed buffalo. Later the Boys talk about how the Cowboys always seem to win, but they don't base this on facts, they base it on John Wayne movies, another stereotype.
Our Characters find power and meaning through their history and culture as natives. The Boys talk fondly of Fyrare bread a native tradition which while not being apart of their tribe, it is still a native dish that they find as apart of their cultural traditions. An example of finding power through the Native culture is Thomas's ability to tell stories which help the boys out in the long run for Thomas uses his ability like many other natives to get things such as the boys getting a ride in the opening or later it's how Victor learns more about his dad through his Friend who lives in Phoenix which wouldn't have been possible to get that info about the dad had it not been for Thomas doing a story swap where he told a story and the friend told a story in return. Victor finds meaning in the symbolic cutting of his long hair to short, He does it to transition many things such as his new understanding for his dad, his maturing into a man and a fresh start as well now that the weight has been lifted of why his dad left/wanted to leave.
Smoke Signals was an accurate portrayal of a group that is highly romanticized in pop culture past and present and they show this very nicely through it's characters struggle at first to understand what it means to be native as they base most of their ideas and such through stereotypes, while later they understand what it means and even mix the modern with the tradition in a way.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Company's that use Indian Ensinga/Names
What I found was a few company's that use Indian naming in their products such as Pontiac and Land O lakes butter. The other thing I found was an article that had a list of all the company's that use logos of natives for their products, there was over 450 company's that do this, it was a wide range of products as well.
Links:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/native-american-images-names-corporate-america-today/story?id=23241293#2
http://time.com/2894357/redskins-trademark-indian-interactive/
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Stories of The Wild Wild West
Railroads and Murder.
Arizona Sentinel- Railroad/Marcipoa
What I learned from the Arizona Newspapers was of stories of murder and stories of a new town called Maricopa which was used as a railroad town and established in the 1870's. While the Story of murder was about a man who named Micheal who's nickname was Rawhide, His story took place in Yuma County and he was murdered by 2 Indians with an axe, after digging deeper I found out that his case resulted in the first judicial hanging in the Arizona territory.
Monday, October 10, 2016
Organ Trade
The Problem that we found is that people need the Kidneys and some people need the cash. But that the groups/people who are making these connections are doing it in shady ways such as paying them much less than they are initially offered and not getting them the proper medical attention that they need post operation, they'll watch them for a day or 2 and then send them on their way with the cash and a plane ticket. If there was someway to manufacture an artificial kidney or organs in general things like the organ trade wouldn't exist.
10/11 Updated
Today we talked to the other groups and what each of there forms of modern day slavery was. I learned that sex trafficking makes a lot of money as well as it being a lot closer than we think with it having a big prominence in Atlanta. This was really surprising to me as this was a topic I knew a little bit about due to the movie Taken but that was just a movie so learning this really shocked me.
List
-Political instability
-Extremes of wealth and poverty
-political corruption
-stigmatized excluded groups
girls
poor
ethnic minorities
-countries with no/few legal representation for individual rights.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
In Class Essay about 12 Years A Slave and Glory.
It is possible to analytical skills and explore real events, circumstances, and attitudes just by watching movies in a critical way, and doing some research. In both 12 Years a Slave and Glory I heard about historical events that I never had heard of before, such as the 54th Regiment and Solomon Northup and without watching those movies, I would have never heard about them before either. These movies along with my post research where I looked into the lives of Samuel Bass the man from Canada who wrote to Mr.Northup's friends in the North and Mr.Shaw from Glory the young leader of the 54th Regiment.
Through the films and the Research I saw the real events, circumstances, and attitudes of these characters. I saw how Shaw's attitude to his men changed, at first he was hesitant to train them as well as leave his old company behind as Civilwar.org told me, he knew he would see action in the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry and no action in the 54th Regiment, as well as only taking the job in the 54th to make his mom less worried about him. At the end of it, Shaw respected his men making sure after getting $3 less than the white soldiers that they receive the full $13 dollars like any other soldier even refusing his pay until they all got the full amount.
We also get an accurate portrayal from both films on the attitudes of how slaves and free black's act towards one another. In Glory it's very hostile, The slaves think the free black's are somewhat of sellouts for living freely with the white people as well as thinking they are delusional for trying to act white since they are black. While the free blacks think that the slaves are stupid for being slaves/caught. In 12 Years A Slave it's different though, When Solomon is still free and living in New York, his family goes shopping at a grocery and a Servant of a white man walks in to, he is obviously confused why Solomon is allowed to go in and talk to the shop owner like friends and wishes he was able to as well and Solomon the freed person in this situation looks away, he pities the man but knows there isn't anything he can do about it, this situation replays itself later on when Solomon is freed, Patsy looks on longing hoping that she too can be free and Solomon now free again can only pity her as the carriage drives away.
The Films both only have limited time to tell their stories so of course a few small details get omitted, such as Solomon having 3 kids instead of 2 or Solomon getting into 2 incidents with his first Master's Overseer instead of 1. But as a whole the movies both get deep into it's source material (the book and letters) and have very little fictional elements to it. 12 Years a Slave gives us a lot of insight into what Slavery was like towards the end of the Comprise era as well as the Pre-Civil war era as well. It's a harrowing look from being set-up by Slave traders to showing what Plantation life was like. While Glory gives great examples of the Civil war and truly shows how hectic battles in the civil war were with the drumming, with the gunfire as well as with the standing in one big line shooting at each other at such a close range that you were sure to get killed or injured.
Citations:
Time:Historical accuracy of 12 Years A Slave: I used this source to tell about the 12 Years A Slave details that were omitted.
NYT's 12/14/89 Glory Review:
Biography of Shaw: I used this source to talk about how Shaw was not looking forward to leading the 54th at first.
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| Illustration of Solomon reuniting with his family |
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| Illustration of what a slave auction would look like. |
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| Edwin Epp's house, Solomon's 2nd Master's home. |
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Reflection on Paraphrase Practice
What I learned Today:
I learned over the course of our classes how to paraphrase and quote. Paraphrasing is useful when when you want to give your own explanation of a quote, so instead of having to quote it, you can just explain it in your own words. While Quoting is good because it makes your paper stand ou
These are the things Mrs.Lawson wanted us to learn and I know them!
- Only use a direct quote when it adds power and style to my writing.
- Always make it clear,from context,that I understand the full meaning of the quote.
- Whether I quote or paraphrase, I must always be transparent about the source and how I'm using it.
- If I use another author's exact words or phrases, to any extent, I have to use quotation marks and give credit.
- If I use another author's presentation of facts or ideas, but put their ideas in my own words, (paraphrase) I better have a good reason for doing so, and I MUST give credit.
- Hyperlinking is so easy, there is no excuse for not being transparent about my sources.
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